We can all feel it: The market's in a bear phase and Silicon Investor is shrinking. There are less active threads, fewer active posters, and much of the posting activity is now on non-market-related threads. INSP is hovering at a dollar a share. The "technical support team", once a vital on-site cop force that demanded that SI not fall into a Yahoo-esque purgatory, is now almost silent. Is anyone home?
Here is the section of the SI Terms of Use that is relevant to poster behavior:
Go2Net does not review, screen or edit messages posted by members. Nonetheless, Go2Net reserves the right to monitor or remove any information transmitted or received through the Service, or to terminate your membership and use of the Service, at any time, without notice, in its sole discretion. It is members' responsibility to bring violations of the Terms of Use by other members to Go2Net's attention, although Go2Net does not guarantee any action based on such information.
The following actions, among others, may result in removal of messages and/or termination of your membership.
a) Using the Service for illegal purposes or for the transmission of material that is unlawful, harassing, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene, tortuous or otherwise objectionable.
b) Posting material, non-public information about companies, without the authorization to do so.
c) Posting or transmitting third party copyrighted information or in any way infringing on the intellectual property rights, contractual or fiduciary rights of others.
d) Providing false information on your registration form, or impersonating someone else.
e) Using the Service for the transmission of junk mail, spam, chain letters, or unsolicited mass distribution of e-mail.
f) Using the Service for the transmission of advertising or promotion of any product or service.
g) Posting improper or off-topic messages or posting more than twenty messages in six hours.
h) Violating the letter or spirit of the Terms of Use.
What is the thinking out there? Are the TOU still being enforced? |
